The ventriloquist's tale by Pauline Melville, Pauline Melville
The ventriloquist's tale

Pauline Melville, Pauline Melville

The ventriloquist's tale

Pauline Melville, Pauline Melville

357 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

fiction historical magical realism emotional reflective slow-paced
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"The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire," claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe. The novel is a parable of miscegenation and racial exclusiveness, of nature defying cu...

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